Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of Domination

1) The author is trying to convince the reader that society is based on the idea of the privilege for different races. These different categories of privilege were formed because of capitalism.

2) The author argues that white racism began to form different levels of privilege classes. One of the classes "white male" is above all other classes. Even though members of the "white male" privilege class were considered to be better than the "males of different races" some of the white males were not better because they were part of the working class. The author talked about how when the civil war ended the white males that were in the working class did not feel anymore privileged that the black males because the black males were now free. This ended up causing white in the working classes to not demand pay raises because they knew that if they did the better white males would find the racial minorities to work for cheaper. The author also argued about how women are treated unfairly because they are viewed as needing to be protected by the white male. The author also stated how "the work that women do isn't work at all and therefore isn't worthy of anything more than emotional compensation." This meant that the white women were not viewed to be as privileged as white males, but at the same time they were more privileged than the other racial males. Other privilege classes include people with disabilities compared to those without.

3) Why was the idea of privilege people developed?
Is it possible to end the idea of privilege people?

4) I think that the author sounded extremely bias in this writing. He talked about how everyone but the white males pushed to the side because of the privilege class that they are in. I believe that it is a stupid idea to have different levels of privilege when everyone is so different from each other, including people in the same privilege classes. It is stupid how being in one different privilege category can make you seem like an unfit person that isn't good enough compared to others. With these different privilege classes different groups were formed to protect one another, yet some of the privilege groups cannot form groups. It seems like in today's society there are groups for every different race, yet if the "white males" formed a group of their own it would most likely be shut down because they are viewed as being superior to all the other groups because of their "privileged class".